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E-bike and e-scooter injuries among ages 11–14 have risen every year since 2017. At one pediatric trauma center, e-bike injuries surpassed car accidents to become the #1 cause of ER trauma visits in 2025. This dashboard compiles the current evidence.
E-scooter injuries treated in U.S. emergency departments have risen every year since tracking began. The 2024 figure is more than 13 times the 2017 baseline.
Sources: CPSC NEISS (2017–2022), ERideHero 2025 Electric Scooter Accident Report (2023–2024). 2018–2019 values estimated from CPSC 23% avg. annual increase. Teal bar = most recent data point.
Children ages 11–14 are structurally overrepresented in injury data. This is not an age group that happens to ride — it is the age group the data points to most directly.
Non-Hispanic Black consumers represented 29% of micromobility injuries nationally despite comprising only 13% of the U.S. population — a disparity that is consistent across years and device types. (CPSC NEISS, 2023)
Helmet use gaps are compounded by education and access inequities. Parents with a college degree were significantly more likely to require helmet use, and high-income districts are nearly four times as likely to show academic recovery from pandemic-era developmental losses. The students most likely to be riding without safety training are the same students whose structured-learning gaps are largest. (Heffernan et al., 2026; Reardon / Stanford-Harvard Educational Opportunity Project, 2025)
Battery fires from improperly charged or stored e-bikes and e-scooters have become a documented public safety emergency. The chain of decisions that leads to thermal runaway can be taught.
The same students overrepresented in injury data are entering a workforce with a documented soft skills crisis — and the skills that prevent micromobility injuries are the exact skills employers say are missing. Impulsive decisions on e-bikes and impulsive decisions in the workplace share a developmental origin.
"The behavior that produces micromobility injuries in the 11–14 age group is precisely the behavior that SEL and character education research identifies as the product of underdeveloped impulse control, peer-influenced decision-making, and insufficient empathy for the consequences of risk. These are not parallel problems. They share a root."
— wheelWISE White Paper, NorthStar Mentors, April 2026Students currently in grades 6–8 were ages 3–10 during the 2020–2022 pandemic — the precise window when foundational peer interaction, impulse control, and empathy development occur. The research has accumulated beyond the preliminary stage.
Each phase of the W.I.S.E. Learning Model directly targets a documented post-pandemic deficit — and builds the precise competencies that employers and safety researchers identify as most critical and most resistant to AI displacement.
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